Yahoo Revamps Search Result Pages
When you are struggling search engine, sometimes small things can do wonders—like giving your search results pages a ‘lick of paint’. That is approached taken by Yahoo the redesign of its search results pages are truly something to behold.
The revamping now gives new looks to Yahoo search results across Yahoo Finance, regular web results, Yahoo Image search, Yahoo Sports, and Yahoo Blogs. The changes come amidst internal ranging inside the company, and wider problems with share price and market share. The Yahoo board recently fired its embattled CEO, Carol Bartz—a move that was considered long overdue by tech experts.
News coming out of Yahoo is that the changes come as result of the continued efforts to unify search experiences across web search, multimedia and other vertical search platforms. The intent has certainly converged well the results because the new results pages are sleek, easy to navigate and certainly adds a fresh experience to searching. Yahoo Image Search in particular has seen major improvements, with results now showing more images from Facebook, better recommendations at end of galleries, as well an improved ‘Latest Pictures’ section.
Yahoo will probably have to wait some time before the user-verdict is returned, but in an age where form so often dominates substance, the verdict shouldn’t be too bad. It’s also probably not a bad idea to pull out the gloves and get to work on the algorithm—an algorithm improvement would really make people sit up and take notice.
Do you like the new-look Yahoo results pages? Share your thoughts on them in the comments below.
(Source: sitetrail.com)
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